English Fairy Tales
Gobborn Seer
Once there was a man Gobborn Seer, and he had a son called Jack.
Lawkamercyme
There was an old woman, as I've heard tell.
She went to the market her eggs for to sell;
Tattercoats
In a great Palace by the sea there once dwelt a very rich old lord, who had neither wife nor children living, only one little granddaughter, whose face he had never seen in all her life.
The Wee Bannock
"Grannie, grannie, come tell us the story of the wee bannock."
Johnny Gloke
Johnny Gloke was a tailor by trade, but like a man of spirit he grew tired of his tailoring, and wished to follow some other path that would lead to honour and fame.
Coat o'Clay
Once on a time, in the parts of Lindsey, there lived a wise woman.
The Three Cows
There was a farmer, and he had three cows, fine fat beauties they were.
Tamlane
Young Tamlane was son of Earl Murray, and Burd Janet was daughter of Dunbar, Earl of March.
The Stars in the Sky
Once on a time and twice on a time, and all times together as ever I heard tell of, there was a tiny lassie who would weep all day to have the stars in the sky to play with;
News!
MR. G. Ha! Steward, how are you, my old boy? How do things go on at home?
Puddock, Mousie, and Ratton
There lived a Puddock in a well,
And a merry Mousie in a mill.
The Little Bull-Calf
Centuries of years ago, when almost all this part of the country was wilderness, there was a little boy, who lived in a poor bit of property and his father gave him a little bull-calf, and with it he gave him everything he wanted for it.
The Wee, Wee Mannie
Once upon a time, when all big folks were wee ones and all lies were true, there was a wee, wee Mannie that had a big, big Coo.
Habetrot and Scantlie Mab
A woman had one fair daughter, who loved play better than work, wandering in the meadows and lanes better than the spinning-wheel and distaff.
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English Fairy Tales
Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle
The fox and his wife they had a great strife,
They never ate mustard in all their whole life;
Stupid's Cries
There was once a little boy, and his mother sent him to buy a sheep's head and pluck;
The Lambton Worm
A wild young fellow was the heir of Lambton, the fine estate and hall by the side of the swift-flowing Wear.
The Wise Men of Gotham
Of Buying of Sheep; Of Hedging a Cuckoo; Of Sending Cheeses; Of Drowning Eels; Of Sending Rent; Of Counting
Princess of Canterbury
There lived formerly in the County of Cumberland a nobleman who had three sons, two of whom were comely and clever youths, but the other a natural fool, named Jack, who was generally engaged with the sheep: he was dressed in a parti-coloured coat, and a steeple-crowned hat with a tassel, as became his condition.Dutch Fairy Tales
The Cat and the Cradle
In the early ages, when our far-off ancestors lived in the woods, ate acorns, slept in caves, and dressed in the skins of wild animals, they had no horses, cows or cats.
Prince Spin Head and Miss Snow White
Long, long ago, before the Romans came into the land and when the fairies ruled in the forest, there was a maiden who lived under an oak tree.
The Boar With the Golden Bristles
Long, long ago, there were brave fighters and skilful hunters in Holland, but neither men nor women ever dreamed that food was to be got out of the ground, but only from the trees and bushes, such as berries, acorns and honey.
The Ice King and his Wonderful Grandchild
In the far-off ages, all the lands of northern Europe were one, for the deep seas had not yet separated them.
The Elves and Their Antics
The elves are the little white creatures that live between heaven and earth.
The Kabouters and the Bells
When the young queen Wilhelmina visited Brabant and Limburg, they amused her with pageants and plays, in which the little fellows called kabouters, in Dutch, and kobolds in German, played and showed off their tricks.
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Mahabharata
1. Contents of subject
One day when the great sages of hard austerities, who were present at the twelve years' sacrifice of Kulapati Shaunaka, were comfortably sitting in the Naimisharanya, Rishi Lomaharshana's son, Ugrashrava, popularly known as Sauti, well-read in the Puranas, came to them with all humility.
(Thereupon) desirous of hearing his wonderful stories, the ascetics addressed him who had come to their hermitage of Naimisharanya.
2. Brief introduction to the story of Mahabharata
At the end of Treta and in the beginning of Dwapara Yuga, the greatest of all that ever wielded arms, Parashurama, being impatient of wrongs, repeatedly destroyed all the Kshatriya races of the world.
That fiery Rama, after destroying the Kshatriyas by his own prowess, made five lakes of blood at Samantapanchaka.
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Grimm Brothers
Cinderella
The wife of a rich man fell sick, and as she felt that her end was drawing near, she called her only daughter to her bedside and said ...Hans Christian Andersen
The Snow Queen
Now we are about to begin, and you must attend; and when we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now ...
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